Cigarette extender

ABSTRACT

The cigarette extender is a relatively stiff tipping paper an eighth-inch in width and a length equal to the width of the cigarette paper glued to an end of the cigarette paper. The stiff strip is rolled up with the cigarette paper. The stiff end becomes the mouthing end that does not soften excessively by saliva in the mouth to resist mouthing of particulate tobacco.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates generally to cigarettes. Morespecifically, the invention is a stiff strip of tipping paper glued tooverlap an end on the inside surface of a cigarette rolling paper tocreate a reinforced mouthpiece.

2. Description of the Related Art

The prior art of interest describes various cigarette filters, but nonediscloses the present invention. There is a need for those smokers whohand-roll their own cigarettes (“roll-your-owns”) to minimize the amountof deleterious tars and the like during smoking. The related art ofinterest will be distinguished in the order of perceived relevance tothe present invention.

U.S. Pat. No. 3,608,561 issued on Sep. 28, 1971, to Mortimer R. Dockdescribes an extender means for attachment of an auxiliary cigarettefilter to a conventional cigarette having a tubular body with ridges onits internal surface defining air ducts to rarify the smoke drawnthrough the cigarette. The filter end of a conventional cigarette isinserted partially into a housing containing a filter that can be one ofthree embodiments. The first embodiment in FIG. 2 appears to be spheresembedded in particulate paper. The second embodiment in FIGS. 3 and 5has linear angular recesses and no packing. The third embodiment hashelical ridges and no packing. The extender means is distinguishable forrequiring either another filter packing or longitudinal or helicalrecesses or ridges, respectively, in the interior surface of theextender.

U.S. Pat. No. 2,932,301 issued on Apr. 12, 1960, to Joseph Tabaradescribes a safety cigarette holder made from perforated paper and ametal foil to provide a combination cigarette holder, ashtray, and anautomatic extinguisher. The device is distinguishable for requiring ametal foil cover.

U.K. Patent Application No. 2 026 842 A published on Feb. 13, 1980, forDonald L. Eastman describes a cigarette holder comprising a mouthpieceand a cigarette recess separated by a catalyst chamber having perforatedsidewalls. The cigarette holder is distinguishable for requiring acatalyst.

U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0034042 A1, published onFeb. 20, 2003, for Kazuyo Kaneki et al. describes a cigarette wrapperand cigarette comprising a wrapped tobacco section, a filter section atone end, and a tip paper having ventilation holes at the opposite end.The cigarette is distinguishable for requiring a tip paper end havingventilation holes.

U.S. Pat. No. 2,693,193 issued on Nov. 2, 1954, to Louis G. Pelletierdescribes a cigarette holder comprising a tubular sleeve element on ametallic or resinous body element that extends over a cigarette. Afilter fills the body element. The holder is distinguishable forrequiring a filter element and a sliding sleeve element to hold acigarette.

U.S. Pat. No. 2,841,153 issued on Jul. 1, 1958, to Louis G. Pelletierdescribes a cigarette having a sleeve member at the mouthing end withopenable triangular tabs to increase the amount of air sucked in duringinhalation of the smoke. The cigarette is distinguishable for requiringopenable air vents in a cigarette.

U.S. Pat. No. 3,359,988 issued on Dec. 26, 1967, to Osborne M. Thompsondescribes a filter cigarette comprising a divider extending from side toside and lengthwise within the filter. The filter is constructed of thinpaper or plastic to form separate filter channels. A plurality of holesare formed in the outer wall of one of the filter channels so that whendrawing on the filter, air will be drawn into one channel only. Amovable sleeve having an opening is positioned over the external surfaceof the filter, and is adjustable, whereby the number of holes subjectedto the inward air flow may be varied on movement of the sleeve. Thefilter cigarette is distinguishable for requiring a divider elementhaving a plurality of holes.

U.S. Pat. No. 3,428,050 issued on Feb. 18, 1969, to Walter R. Kandeldescribes a filter cigarette having an adjustable filter capacity bydividing transversely into tip and body sections rotatably interengaged,and having the meeting ends divided longitudinally into at least onesegment filled with a tobacco smoke filter, and another segment withouta filter, the two segments being axially offset from each other. Avariable degree of smoke-filtering action is achieved depending upon therelative angular adjustment of the tip and body sections. The filtercigarette is distinguishable for requiring rotatable tip and bodysections.

U.S. Pat. No. 3,503,406 issued on Mar. 31, 1970, to Lawrence M. Riegelet al. describes a sleeve containing a control element is provided tocooperate with the cylindrical cigarette tip containing a complementarycontrol element to control the flow of smoke and air in balancedportions. The sleeve and tip also have aeration apertures displaced apredetermined distance from the sleeve control element and the tip end.The sleeve is independently movable both rotationally and axiallyrelative to the tip end to effect a full range of air/smoke ratio anddamping to assure a balanced draw. The sleeve is distinguishable forrequiring its independent movability rotationally and axially.

U.S. Pat. No. 3,512,537 issued on May 19, 1970, to Louis G. Pelletierdescribes an adjustable aerated cigarette in which the cigarette wrapperis provided with a tobacco-free extension surrounding a sleeve, theextension having a circumferential region of pores which register with aring of slots formed in the sleeve adjacent the end of the tobaccocolumn. A tube having a colored indicator ring is telescopicallyreceived in the sleeve, the tube having an opening therein that is soshaped that when the tube is pushed inwardly, it registers with theslots to provide a lateral air passage of varying dimensions. Thecigarette is distinguishable for requiring a slotted sleeve having atelescopic tube with an opening.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,023,576 issued on May 17, 1977, to Vello Normandescribes a cigarette mouthpiece made of one-piece construction in whichtwo semi-cylindrical shells are hinged together along one edge and arereleasably secured together at the free edges. The device has aninternal cylindrical smoke chamber which is separated from a tobaccocolumn at one end by a baffle while the opposite end of the smokechamber is defined by a pair of abutting walls which are each slotted todefine an orifice. The orifice has a diameter less than the orifice ofthe smoke package to control the smoke flow. The exterior surface of themouthpiece is provided with longitudinal grooves that cooperate with anoverlying perforated tipping paper to define flow paths for ventilationair. The cigarette mouthpiece is distinguishable for requiring aseparate internal smoke chamber and a baffle separation.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,532,943 issued on Aug. 6, 1985, to Walter A. Nichols etal. describes an adjustable filter cigarette comprising tobacco wrappedin cigarette paper, an integral axially aligned cylindrical filter plug,and tipping paper. The filter plug is divided into two segments with thefirst segment being rotatable with the second segment. The cigarette isdistinguishable for requiring an adjustable filter plug.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,587,982 issued on May 13, 1986, to Peter I. Adams et al.describes a tipping assembly for a cigarette comprising a ventilatedtipping wrapper spaced from the filter element by a raised pattern ofthermoplastic material printed on the inner surface of the wrapper. Thecigarette is distinguishable for requiring a raised pattern ofthermoplastic material printed on the wrapper.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,723,561 issued on Feb. 9, 1988, to John A. Lukedescribes a cigarette provided with an intermediate filter elementhaving an air permeable surface with lengthwise peripheral ventilationgrooves. The cigarette is distinguishable for requiring an intermediatefilter element.

U.S. Patent No. U.S. Pat. No. 6,457,475 Bl issued on Oct. 1, 2002, toShichisei Tani et al. describing a cigarette having projections of anembossed plug wrap attached to a tipping paper surrounding the filter.The cigarette is distinguishable for requiring an embossed plug wrap.

U.K. Patent No. 241,463 issued on Oct. 22, 1925, to Franz H. B. Stelzerdescribes a method of tipping paper strips in cigarette-making machinescomprising the gluing of the cork foil to tissue paper and wound intocoils for machine manufacture. The cork foil tipped cigarettes aredistinguishable for lacking an extender element on the mouthing end ofthe cigarette.

U.K. Patent No. 1,537,583 issued on Jan. 10, 1979, to Deutsche BenkertGmbH. & Co. KG describes a perforated cigarette tipping paper coveringthe filter of a cigarette. The cigarette is distinguishable forrequiring a perforated cigarette tipping paper.

U.K. Patent Application Publication No. GB 22 078 084 A published onJan. 6, 1980, for Stanley G. Jones describes automatic high speedmanufacture of cigarette papers provided with a strip of incombustiblefoil directed longitudinally on the cigarette paper and secured to theuncoated face of the paper adjacent the glued edge. Only a portion ofthe strip is adhesively secured to the cigarette paper, and theremainder of the strip may be bent away by the smoker after thecigarette has been rolled to form a pre-attached holder. The cigaretteis distinguishable for requiring a metal strip on the paper.

U.K. Patent Application Publication No. GB 2 099 678 A published on Dec.15, 1982, for Walter Riedesser describes a mouthpiece for filtercigarettes having a filter chamber comprising two filter parts of apaper or fibrous material and a third filter part lying in betweenloosely filled with granular filter material all surrounded by a porouscover strip. The filter chamber is encased completely by a strip forconnecting the filter chamber to the tobacco part of the cigarette,which strip is perforated in the region of the filter part filled withgranular material, and is a naturally porous fleece-like paper of highporosity impregnated with a low viscosity starch solution. The cigarettemouthpiece is distinguishable for requiring three filter parts coveredby a porous cover strip.

U.K. Patent Application No. GB 2 135 166 A published on Aug. 30, 1984,for David L. Bassett describes a tipping assembly for a filteredcigarette comprising an elongated and webbed tipping paper having aseries of ventilating apertures lying parallel to the longitudinal axisof the web. Printing onto the web elongate areas of polyvinyl chlorideon either side and parallel to the vents, and applying the coated web toa filter rod so that the printed areas define a circumferential cavitybetween the tipping paper and the filter rod. The tipping assembly isdistinguishable for requiring a series of ventilating apertures andprinted areas of polyvinyl chloride.

European Patent Application No. 0 659 353 A1 published on Jun. 28, 1995,for Urs Nyffeler et al. describes a kit for making a smoking articlecomprising a hollow cylinder of cigarette paper having a filter at oneend joined by a tipping. A rectangular sheet of reconstituted tobacco isrolled into a cylindrical shape and inserts same into the hull to make acigarette. The hand-made cigarette is distinguishable for lacking anempty extender.

None of the above inventions and patents, taken either singly or incombination, is seen to describe the instant invention as claimed. Thus,a cigarette extender solving the aforementioned problems is desired.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention is a cigarette extender is stiff, one-eighth inch wide andhaving a length commensurate to the length of a standard cigarette paperfor do-it-yourselfers who prefer to make their own cigarettes andeconomize on store-bought packaged cigarettes. The conventionalcigarette paper is glued to the aforementioned strip of stiff paper onthe narrow end or width of the cigarette paper. The desired amount oftobacco is added as a strip on an edge on the cigarette paper oppositeits glued edge and conventionally rolled up either by hand or in arolling up device. The longitudinal glued end is conventionally wet bysaliva to seal the tobacco inside the paper. The self-prepared cigaretteis smoked with the inserted stiff inner paper collar end held betweenthe smoker's lips. The advantage of the added stiffener strip is theincreased stiffness of the cigarette's mouthed end resulting in lessdeformation due to the saliva of the smoker.

Accordingly, it is a principal object of the invention to provide adevice to decrease the deformation of the mouthed end of a self-rolledcigarette during the smoking period.

It is another object of the invention to provide a reinforced end to ahand-rolled cigarette.

It is a further object of the invention to provide an inner stiff papercollar at the mouthed end during smoking.

Still another object of the invention is to increase the enjoyment ofsmoking a hand-rolled cigarette due to avoiding the distortion of thewet end.

It is an object of the invention to provide improved elements andarrangements thereof for the purposes described which is inexpensive,dependable and fully effective in accomplishing its intended purposes.

These and other objects of the present invention will become readilyapparent upon further review of the following specification anddrawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an environmental side elevational view of a smoker using acigarette equipped with an inner collar strip on a personally wrappedcigarette according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of a cigarette paper and its stiff innercollar strip applied to one end thereof according to the presentinvention.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the completed device attached toone end of a personally rolled cigarette.

Similar reference characters denote corresponding features consistentlythroughout the attached drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The present invention is directed to a device to increase the resistanceof a hand-rolled cigarette to the saliva of a smoker during smoking. Aproblem with smoking hand-rolled cigarettes is that the mouthed endbecomes soggy and distributes tobacco inside the mouth. This inventionis directed to those smokers who prefer to make their own cigarettes.

In FIG. 1, a lighted hand-made modified cigarette 10 being smoked by aperson 12 has an extender element 14 attached to its proximate end. Manypeople prefer to make their own cigarettes by rolling up a quantity oftheir favorite brand ground tobacco 16 in rectangular cigarette papers18 of their favorite brands. The tobacco 16 is added in an evendistribution to one end of the filter paper 18 and rolled up either byhand or by using a simple cigarette rolling device (not shown).

According to our invention, a stiff strip of paper or extender element14 approximately one-eighth inch in width and as long as the width ofthe cigarette paper 18 is adhesively added by overlapping extenderelement 14 on the edge of the cigarette paper 18. Any conventionalnon-toxic adhesive or glue can be used.

As is conventional, the cigarette maker makes a crimp 20 at the oppositeend of the hand-made cigarette 10, and usually moistens the crimp 20 bymouth saliva in order to confine the tobacco 16 from spilling out priorto lighting the cigarette 10.

The economical and ergonomic extender element 14 thus enables any smoker12 to smoke his/her hand-made cigarettes 10 with the comfortingknowledge that less tar, nicotine and like deleterious materials arecontaminating his/her body. When one considers the inflated price ofmanufactured cigarettes today, the saving in cost and minimizing theunhealthy inhalation of the cigarette's tar, nicotine and the like iswell worth the effort.

It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to theembodiment described above, but encompasses any and all embodimentswithin the scope of the following claims.

1. A cigarette extender on a self-rolled cigarette, comprising:cigarette paper having a length and a width, and a glued strip along thelength for sealing; a quantity of cigarette tobacco; a strip of stiffpaper tipping having a minimal width and a length coextensive with thelength of said cigarette paper; and said stiff paper tipping attached tosaid cigarette paper along its length and, resulting upon rolling thecigarette, forms a cigarette extender portion; whereby upon completionof the production of a rolled cigarette with tobacco, a smoker holds thestiff paper portion in his/her mouth for smoking, resulting in less tarand the like intake of deleterious materials.
 2. The cigarette extenderaccording to claim 1, wherein the stiff tipping paper has a minimalwidth dimension of one-eighth of an inch.
 3. The cigarette extenderaccording to claim 1, wherein the stiff tipping paper overlaps thecigarette paper along its length.
 4. The cigarette extender according toclaim 1, wherein the stiff tipping paper is applied to the stiff tippingpaper by a non-harmful adhesive.